Jennifer's Quotes:

• I thought she'd [her mother] offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this business, so you better toughen up!' And I did.

• This film [the Cell] certainly is not meant for the girls who sing along with my songs.

• It makes me laugh when she says she [Salma Hayek] got offered Selena, which was an outright lie. If that's what she does to get herself publicity than that's her thing.

• I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

• People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.

• On Cameron Diaz: A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she would have done more with.

• In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love her [Winona Ryder].'

• I swear to God, I don't remember anything [Gwyneth Paltrow] was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

• A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.

• I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.

• It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

• If you love someone, don`t wait till tomorrow to tell him/her. Maybe that next day will never come at all.

• I have the stardom glow.

• I WANTED to do my hair (on her curly hair at the Oscars) like that. Sometimes people just don't get things until months later.

• Do I think she (Madonna)'s a great performer? Yes.

• Do I think she's a great actress? No.

• It's hard for them (partners) to live in my shadow, knowing that they will never make the money I do.

• I recorded this with Emilio Estefan in South Beach," she says, as the pulse of Estefan's beats begin to fade.

• My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

• Forget the glam nights out, apparently she would Much rather stay at home and watch TV.

• There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.

• You laugh it off, you get upset for a little while, you're human and you let it go.

• Sometimes journalists try to create a persona that's not really there.

• It used to bother me being portrayed as this bitchy person, but now I feel that the public understands me better than some writer. There are people who know who I really am, and that's good enough for me.

• I've been trying to discover what works, to tap into the emotion and drama that I bring into my acting, and believe me, there has always been a lot of praying on my part. There are people who know who I really am, and that's good enough for me.

• I really loved Barbies, I loved their clothes and their little shoes.

• "[Men] really disgust me if they don't have a nice smile, nice lips and nice teeth...They have too many disgusting habits - like scratching themselves all the time. And it's really weird how guys think that passing gas is the funniest thing in the world. They love to do that thing in front of girls and laugh about it."

• "I didn't expect it to happen like this, wrapping one film and flying out to do a new one the next day. But I'm fresh enough and ambitious enough to stay up all night for the sake of a job. I'm not gonna take it easy. I want to do so much more when I'm getting these great opportunities."

• "In every movie they want you to look as thin as you can look. In Selena, it was the other way around: 'How can we shoot her butt so it looks like Selena's?'"

• "I was in third grade when Rapper's Delight changed my life. But when I came home, my mother would be listening to Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Diana Ross. I want to include all those elements in my music."

• "I can't try to be Whitney or Faith. I have something else to offer to anybody who'll want to, you know, get down."

• "Massages. They?re the only thing that can really relax me. I like it hard. Dont try to come and tickle me with your fingers, or you can get out."

• "I saw West Side Story with Latin People like me, and I knew that I wanted to perform."

• "If you kiss on the first date and it?s not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it?s better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else."

• "Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Somebody said to me not too long ago, 'Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve', and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face."

• "I'm a total powerhouse. If you ask me, I'd like to become the first female president -- that would be really cool."